Reliance Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtue in most request is conformity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson